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Claudius

What if you can get Cavani for 25m pounds? Or even 30? Would you bite, Capi? I imagine there is some scope to push his price down due to his age and salary.

QuincyAbeyie

Leto was MotM again against Bayern. Please sign him up.

lorddulaarsenal

No way is wengs going for Hummels. Gabriel will be given a shot.

We may get someone like smalling though

est

Quincy Abeyie wrote:
Leto was MotM again against Bayern. Please sign him up.

Didn't see that, but I thought he put in an excellent performance in Dallas Buyers Club.

If the wages are reasonable, I wouldn't mind this signing.

QuincyAbeyie

😆 Oops. Bernd Leno with Leto's hair and we've got ourselves a keeper.

innervisionscm

Leno feels like a Wenger signing.

Qwiss

est wrote:
Quincy Abeyie wrote:
Leto was MotM again against Bayern. Please sign him up.

Didn't see that, but I thought he put in an excellent performance in Dallas Buyers Club.

If the wages are reasonable, I wouldn't mind this signing.

Not interested, he's just not a serious player. Guys a joker.

Shady

If we're looking at strikers (which we should be), we ought to target someone in their early 20s who we can develop into a top 4/5 striker in world football. I'm thinking of the two Lyon boys, but I'm sure there are others out there.

In football things change all the time. There could be about 10 strikers out there who could all go on to be world class. Maybe 2 will reach it no matter what, but the other 8 will need circumstances and luck to fall their way. For this group it will come down to which gets signed by a top club that will give them chances to play.

lorddulaarsenal

Get Morata

Qwiss

Shady Shakes wrote:
If we're looking at strikers (which we should be), we ought to target someone in their early 20s who we can develop into a top 4/5 striker in world football. I'm thinking of the two Lyon boys, but I'm sure there are others out there.

In football things change all the time. There could be about 10 strikers out there who could all go on to be world class. Maybe 2 will reach it no matter what, but the other 8 will need circumstances and luck to fall their way. For this group it will come down to which gets signed by a top club that will give them chances to play.

This is what I want and its what Wenger used to be great at. Those days feel like a long, long time ago now though.

goon

I think the main reason for that is that those who look like they can develop into a top 4/5 strikers end up costing an already established top 4/5 striker sum, despite the fact that there's no guarantee that they'll develop the way you'd want. But I do think we need to take that gamble, otherwise they'll just become out of reach.

innervisionscm

Center forwards have so much responsibility in the modern game. You need so many different skills and you need a good physique. Even someone like Henry would have to deal with extra responsibility with his back to goal in today's game. There aren't a lot of players out there who can do the job right now. Not Wenger's fault.

ultimatewarrior

qs! wrote:
Shady Shakes wrote:
If we're looking at strikers (which we should be), we ought to target someone in their early 20s who we can develop into a top 4/5 striker in world football. I'm thinking of the two Lyon boys, but I'm sure there are others out there.

In football things change all the time. There could be about 10 strikers out there who could all go on to be world class. Maybe 2 will reach it no matter what, but the other 8 will need circumstances and luck to fall their way. For this group it will come down to which gets signed by a top club that will give them chances to play.

This is what I want and its what Wenger used to be great at. Those days feel like a long, long time ago now though.

What OTF said.

People forget that we lucked out on Henry, only because he was so terribly misused at Juventus.

Anelka left as quickly as he arrived.

van Persie took 30 years to deliver the goods, and that's despite no-one but Wenger seeing any potential in him as a striker.

Signing top strikers is far easier said than done.

Many moan about not signing a better striker than Giroud or Welbeck for that matter. Yet, if you ask those guys who could we have bought, they'd all clutch at Cavani made straws, or Benzema ones.

Since we lost Robin Van Persie, there was nobody top class who we could have signed. The ones we tried for failed, Higuain and Suarez.

If we could have signed someone better than Giroud and Welbeck, why would we refuse to do it? There's no logical reason not to.

Qwiss

otfgoon wrote:
I think the main reason for that is that those who look like they can develop into a top 4/5 strikers end up costing an already established top 4/5 striker sum, despite the fact that there's no guarantee that they'll develop the way you'd want. But I do think we need to take that gamble, otherwise they'll just become out of reach.

Yeah that definitely a big part of it. The rest of the world has caught up in terms of scouting and exploiting foreign leagues so there is far less opportunity.

I agree that we need to shell out for a big up and comer though. Signing an established goal scorer now is crazy money, look at Suarez, Bale, etc

I wonder will Benteke move this summer, he still looks unplayable when he turns it on. I wonder would a move motivate him to do it more often. Not sure its a gamble I'd take for us but he's certainly better at CF than Welbeck.

Irishgunner

He's had big problems with injuries though, not sure I'd want to take a punt on his potential with that kind of record tbh.

Anzac

I want Lukaku.

lorddulaarsenal

Pfff don't want that carthorse

y va marquer

I wish for Aguero

lorddulaarsenal

I wish for messi

lorddulaarsenal

Varane, Gundogan and Sterling

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